There was more to it. The Conservatives spent a year or more demonizing Justin Trudeau as a lightweight, then said at the end of their commercials that it might only be temporary and he might be experienced enough some day. Never once that I can remember did they say he was WRONG, and never until a very lame ad near campaign’s end did they actually give a reason to vote FOR them.
An embarrassingly stupid campaign in which they undoubtedly made some very stupid consultants wealthy.
Morons.
cheers from Calgary,
Jim
Stephen Harper was the most sincere and the most committed defender of Israel of all other national leaders.
Did that play any role in the election?
Do Canada's universities and Left wing political parties voice the same kind of anti-Israel and anti-Jew sentiments that are now so common in America?
As a frequent visitor to Canada and Calgary, my belief was that the political sea change was driven by Canada’s faltering commodity-based economy radiating outward from the conservative middle provinces. Canada’s hot real estate market has been in bubble territory, despite no favorable tax treatment for mortgages.
I have watched the Loonie swoon to US$.70 ($.72 today). That alone should make Canadian real estate attractive to Americans. Yet, falling real estate prices in Alberta could (and likely did) foment upset - this I believe that this was Harper’s Achilles heel.